Moscow [Russia]: The UK\u2019s intelligence agencies are planning to enlist NATO allies in a large-scale operation targeting the \u201cshadow fleet,\u201d which could lead to an environmental disaster in international waters, the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement obtained by TASS.<\/p>\n
As per the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this plan provides for a major act of sabotage to force Washington into sanctioning buyers of Russian energy.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, the Russian MFA said, \u201cRussia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service: UK intelligence agencies plan to involve NATO allies to launch a massive raid on the \u2018shadow fleet\u2019. This plan provides for a major act of sabotage to force Washington into sanctioning buyers of Russian energy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBritish secret services are planning ecological disaster in international waters. The press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation informs that, according to the information coming to the SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service), the British secret services are planning to involve NATO allies in a massive roundup for the \u2018shadow fleet\u2019,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
According to the UK\u2019s plan, the impetus for such a campaign should be provided by \u201ca resonant incident involving one or more tankers.\u201d
\n\u201cThe plan involves organizing a major act of sabotage the losses of which would allow the transportation of Russian oil to be declared a threat to all international shipping. This would untie Western countries\u2019 hands in choosing methods of counteraction,\u201d the document said, as quoted by Tass.<\/p>\n
According to the SVR, the British are working on \u201ctwo potential casus belli.\u201d \u201cThe first scenario implicates setting up an \u2018unwanted\u2019 tanker accident in one of bottlenecks of sea communications (for example, in straits). As it is believed in London, oil spills and fairway blocking would provide NATO countries with \u2018sufficient\u2019 grounds for establishing a precedent of \u2018extraordinary\u2019 vessel inspection under the guise of maritime safety and environmental regulations compliance,\u201d the statement noted.<\/p>\n
The SVR pointed out that the timing of the UK attack is intended to be chosen so as to use the media effect from it to put pressure on the administration of US President Donald Trump, as per Tass.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe aim is to force Washington, in defiance of its national interests, to impose the most severe secondary sanctions against Russian energy resources buyers, making them seen as \u2018indirect culprits of the tragedy\u2019,\u201d the statement said, as per Tass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moscow [Russia]: The UK\u2019s intelligence agencies are planning to enlist NATO allies in a large-scale operation targeting the \u201cshadow fleet,\u201d which could lead to an environmental disaster in international waters, the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement obtained by TASS. As per the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13193,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13191\/revisions\/13193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}